Given the right conditions, amateur radio operators can talk to anyone, anywhere in the world. But what about television? Could that be sent around the world too? Analog television transmitted a lot of information, and [more…]
Don Hopkins recently posted his clever Logo Adventure for C64 Terrapin Logo, a skeleton of an adventure game that uses Logo’s own parser as the parser for the game, by defining commands as procedures and using [more…]
For some nostalgics it’s not merely enough to emulate the console or computer – they want to emulate the CRT they used it on too! The nature of cathode-ray tube displays distinctly affected how images [more…]
Danger Will Robinson! High Voltage! In order to work, a TV or monitor uses high-voltage currents which can electrocute you! For electrons to be attracted enough to the anode to leave the cathode in a [more…]
While the age of television meant you could electronically capture a moving image and broadcast it to receivers “live”, there quickly became an obvious need to store that moving image either for posterity or use [more…]
The first mechanical light-gun games appeared in the arcades and midways of the 1930s. Following the invention of the light-sensing vacuum tube, companies such as Seeburg produced games that had the tube hidden inside targets, [more…]
Yo Ho Ho and a Box of Copied Floppies! Here be a proverbial rogues’ gallery of clippings just in time for Hallowe’en from 1980s computer magazines such as Byte, Analog, Creative Computing, CoCo Mag, Computers [more…]
Paleotronic had a chat with prolific teletext artist Steve Horsley, aka Horsenburger, about how and why he got into teletext art. Thanks for agreeing to answer our questions! When did you first encounter teletext? What [more…]
Recently we experienced some negative feedback on a public forum from an individual who took issue with our exuberance in announcing new features in microM8, calling them unimportant or defective, accusing us of stealing some [more…]
While the advertising model adopted by free-to-air television more than covered station-owners costs, media companies have always searched for solutions aimed at getting viewers to pay for programming directly. Telemeter was one such solution. An [more…]
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